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Yea it's meant to show how smart phones correlate significantly more than vehicle weight, but that vehicle weight is more of an exacerbating factor rather than the cause. Smart phone adoption is absolutely the cause for more pedestrian deaths, distracted driving, I see people driving while looking attheir phone all the time, it's verified fact.
Why is it only including suv/light truck weights? Wouldn't it be more informative to do average weight of vehicle, regardless of class? As light trucks/SUVs become a larger share, the average weight would trend up. I think, at least.
is weight even that useful of a statistic to track in this context?
the reason american light trucks and some SUVs aren't street legal in the EU is not their weight: it's their geometry.
their hoods are too high and massively increase the likelihood a pedestrian is pushed under the wheels, instead of tumbling over the hood and windshield.
they also have stupidly bad visibility when it comes to children or generally smaller persons.
i wouldn't think that weight matters as much as the general shape and size of a vehicle, but i don't have the energy to do research right now...it's too hot to think :(
Heh, that's a good point! I wonder what the graph would look like if it was hood height instead.
Yeah, that's not how physics works. Things can't stop instantly.
Fun fact: people still can’t teleport and you should be aware of where they are when you’re driving near them.
If you are blind to the world with your nose stuck in a phone, and unexpectedly wonder off the sidewalk into the path of a bus, you die and it's 100% your own fault.
What makes you think it was the pedestrians on their phones?
If you’re driving too fast to stop for an unexpected hazard you’re driving dangerously.